Family Matters: Writing a Memoir

A memoir is a gateway to meaning. Like fingerprints, all memoirs are unique.
In this two-hour class, we’ll use various writing prompts to encourage our unique way of writing about our lives and our families, with help from Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones and Arundhati Roy’s memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. We’ll look at craft elements such as animating a scene, using dialogue, and imagery to make our stories lively and interesting. Finally, we’ll look at ways of organizing a series of memories through song titles, college, an entry per week, a series of letters, etc. Please bring a notebook and a pen.
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Teaching the art of writing a story has been something Jeanne Salvato has loved to do professionally both in the States and in France. She has a degree in English literature from Cornell University, and has taught creative writing in various settings in Tucson, Paris, and Rochester.